A NEW town centre cafe is brewing for Port Glasgow, the Tele can reveal.

Bakery giants Greggs have confirmed they are looking to relocate their current Princes Street shop to a bigger unit nearby.

The company has been linked with the former Farmfoods site just down the road at the corner of Church Street.

It has been empty for almost 10 years after the frozen food retailer switched to larger premises on the same street beneath the town hall back in 2008.

Greggs is understood to be keen on converting the vacant site.
Its current Port shop opened in March 1985.

A Greggs spokesperson said: “We can confirm that we are looking into the possibility of moving the Greggs Princes Street shop to a new, nearby location later this year.

“We’ll have more information about where and when in the near future.”

It is unclear how many seats the cafe would have and how many new staff would be taken on, but the company has had recent success with such a move in Greenock.

Last year the long-standing Greggs in the Oak Mall relocated to the former Dorothy Perkins unit as a cafe. The baked goods retailer also has a shop just outside the shopping centre on West Blackhall Street and had one in Gourock’s Kempock Street until two years ago.

The plan for a new Port cafe is another boost for the town as work continues on the expansion of the nearby retail park.

As revealed by the Tele just over a year ago, regeneration officials are also planning a £600,000 spur road from the A8 roundabout at the Tesco filling station onto Princes Street, in a bid to drive more traffic into the town centre and boost local business.